Contents

• Introduction
• Overview of an ATLAS Installation
  • Downloading the software and checking for known errors
  • Turn off CPU throttling when installing ATLAS
  • Basic Steps of an ATLAS install
  
  
• The ATLAS configure step
  • Building a full LAPACK library using ATLAS and netlib's LAPACK
  • Changing the compilers and flags that ATLAS uses for the build
  • Handling hyperthreading, SMT, modules, and other horrors
  • Building dynamic/shared libraries
  • Changing the way ATLAS does timings
  • Manually setting OS, architecture, assembly dialect
  • Explicitly overriding architecture detection
  • Building Generic x86 libraries
  • Kludging an install to workaround the gfortran/x87 compiler bug
  • Various other flags
  
  
• The ATLAS build step
• The ATLAS check step
• The ATLAS time step
  • Contrasting non-default install performance
  • Discussion of timing targets
  
  
• The ATLAS install step
• Example: Installing ATLAS with full LAPACK on Linux/AMD64
  • Figuring out configure flags
  • Creating source directories and building LAPACK
  • Creating BLDdir and installing ATLAS
  
  
• Special Instructions for some platforms
  • Special Instructions for Windows
  • Special Instructions for ARM
  • Special instructions for OS X
  • Special instructions for AIX
  • Special instructions for SunOS
  
  
• Troubleshooting
• Bibliography
• Post-install Timing and Benchmarking
  • Setting up ploticus
  • Building the existing charts
  • A guide to the tools (to build your own)

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